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Unless you have been hiding under a rock all week you will no doubt have heard of Quora, if not, what’s Quora? Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.
Milo loves it and thinks “it will be the next twitter” and usually as my colleagues will tell [...]

I have been discussing this with anyone who will listen especially Mr Mulley over the last two years.
Yesterday Robert Scoble announced that himself and his Mrs, Maryam are having a baby. (congrats Robert and Maryam)
As you can see it set the twitter world alight.
Result
ZERO
In fairness, when we have Shel writing a book which has a [...]

It looks like last weeks twitter post was spot on given the news that twitter is now throttling its API
Does it really matter?
Twitter is now overwhelming
Its out of control, most days in the last seven I have gained 35 followers and lost 7 minimum.
People are following me for no reason,I get messages from people pushing [...]

So should we trust authority on Twitter?
Not in a million years is my thought, all it really means is that we are trusting loudhailers more than microphones.
What interesting today is that how Techmeme really runs what our larger bloggers write about. Mike is up there screaming about bloggers loosing the plot over Loic’s plan and [...]

In what is one of the most obvious omissions I have ever seen, BusinessWeek omitted Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington from their 25 most influential people of the web.
The writer of this must have been sleeping for the year or else something is seriously up at BusinessWeek.
Check out the list, its totally nuts, no Arrington, No [...]

What a great day
Maxroam V2 launches and Scoble goes down on a TKO

You just can’t mess with the entrepeneurs Robert

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MAXroam is attending TC50 as an alumni next week and I arrived in San Francisco yesterday to make sure everything goes smoothly. The rest of the team arrives tomorrow and we have been running around like blue arse flies trying to get everything ready
I just arrived back in my hotel to read this from Robert [...]

Why are we not yet seeing European brands take part in online engagement and being stuck in a web 1 mentality?
Take Nespresso for example

I am huge fan and at least 10 of my online friends and 20 of my personal friends own the machine, all this came from a chat with Florian in Paris regarding [...]

This post from Jason Calacanis should be standard reading for any newly funded company. I think it makes really interesting reading and contain gems which should be of use to any start-up.
My favourites were
3.Buy everyone lunch four days a week and establish a no-meetings policy. Going out for food or ordering in takes at least [...]